The Bling Ring Review.

In lesson we watched a teen film called "The Bling Ring" this film is based on a true story where a group of teenagers take on a thrilling and disturbing crime-spree in the Hollywood hills.The group, who were fixated on the glamorous life, tracked their celebrity targets online, and stole more than 3 million in luxury goods from their homes. Their victims included Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, and Rachel Bilson, and the gang became known in the media as "The Bling Ring." 

The film did not have a stereotypical teen film storyline although it did have binary oppositions which include: Teens vs authority (parents, police, media) , poor vs rich and good vs bad. The film was also set in very stereotypical places that teenagers would be such as: the kitchen, their bedrooms, clubs and each others houses. 

The opening of the film featured a photo montage which was a selection of snapshots throughout the film, we could also tell the genre was for teenagers as we see 'Facebook' and other social networks at the beginning and also lots of fashion which is what a lot of young girls are interested in. The opening definitely sets the audience up for what the film is going to be about. 

We could also suggest that the film follows stereotypes that society have on teenagers, for example they are portrayed in a bad way and are stereotyped to be reckless, thieves, spoilt and assume we all take drugs and are always partying but in this film this is how the teenagers are as oppose to having a variety of different groups of teenagers such as: "the geeks".